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Tournament Settings

First of all, you need to understand the tournament. The Rabbit is a cumulative scoring best-ball tournament in which your starting lineup each week consists of 1 QB, 2 RB, 2 WR, 1 TE, and 2 Flex players. Drafts consist of 10 teams, 15 rounds, and a 20-second pick clock. The tournament has a maximum of 5,720 participants in total and each person can field up to 150 teams.

Players fade away

Bucky Irving – RB14 / 28th overall

Bucky Irving had a phenomenal rookie season in 2024, making him a highly rated player for the 2025 season. Although his season started well, he missed eight games midway through the Buccaneers’ season due to injury and finished poorly. In his nine games, Irving averaged a solid 14.4 PPR PPG, but finished with 8.3 fantasy points or fewer in three of his last four games. The fear lies in his smaller stature; he can’t handle a three-time workload, and that seemed to be the case in 2025.

Irving is a talented running back, and recent statements from the coach point to a possible bounce-back year, but I don’t quite see it. The concern that he won’t be able to fill a true ‘workhorse’ role for an entire season is valid. Losing goal line work to Sean Tucker in 2025 is also concerning. Rachaad White appears to be gone, but Tucker is likely to return, and we can’t rule out the Buccaneers adding another player. I don’t have enough confidence in Irving’s role in 2026 to afford this cost.

Rashee Rice – WR13 / 32nd overall

Advanced Stats and Stats by Rashee Rice

After returning from injury and suspension, Rashee Rice picked up where he left off before his injury in 2024. He led Kansas City’s passing attack before missing the end of the season due to another injury. In his eight healthy games, Rice averaged 18.8 PPR PPG while earning a 28.7% target share. He was also 14th among wide receivers in First Downs per Route Run and 15th in Yards per Route Run. Everything seems to be coming along, Rice, right?

The problem with the Kansas City wideout is that he can’t leave the field under his own power. He is already on probation for his high-speed multi-car crash in 2025, which saw him serve the aforementioned six-match suspension. Then in February, some serious allegations of domestic violence were made against him. We don’t know what the NFL will do at this point, but an indefinite suspension is not out of the question. The Philadelphia native’s price point is too high to take the risk.

Rome Odunze – WR22 / 50th overall

Odunze’s advanced stats and statistics

Rome Odunze is off to a hot start in 2025, posting 19.9 PPR PPG through his first four games. But after that, he scored more than 18 fantasy points just twice before missing the final five games of the regular season. He still earned a 23.7% target share for the year, but only ranked No. 38 among wide receivers in Yards Per Route Run (YPRR). It doesn’t help that his reach target percentage was an awful 63.3%, which ranked him 81st among wide receivers.

Although Odunze is a talented playmaker in the field, he and Caleb Williams have only been on the same page for a short time. Also during his absence at the end of the season, Colston Loveland and Luther Burden each flourished. Additionally, while DJ Moore is rumored to be signed, his contract will be difficult to move. Odunze has a lot of competition for goals, and his goals are erratic. His profile is certainly a better fit for a best-ball format, but his cost is still too high for what his projection suggests.

Parker Washington – WR37 / 80th overall

Parker Washington advanced stats and stats

Who would have thought that Parker Washington would be the man leading the Jaguars’ passing attack at the end of the season and into the playoffs? Washington finished 2025 with 11.5 points per game in point-per-reception (PPR) competition, but over his last four games that number was 22.3. Washington fearlessly ran down the middle of the field, where Trevor Lawrence likes to target, and contributed after the catch. Now he looks to build on that in the 2026 season.

My fear here is that we’re counting too much on a four-game sample size for Parker Washington while Travis Hunter was injured. I still expect Washington to play a role in 2026, but how good will that role be? This is a busy room. There are rumors that Brian Thomas Jr. is being traded, but no serious reports have surfaced. Jakobi Meyers signed a contract extension after being acquired halfway through the season. Hunter will play more cornerback than wide receiver in 2026, but he will get offensive packages. Washington is a blur.

Woody Marks – RB35 / 103rd overall

Marks’ advanced stats and statistics

Woody Marks’ rookie season was… strange. He entered the league as a pass-catching specialist, and the Texans turned him into a two-down grinder. Due to Houston’s lack of depth at the position, Marks’ role was good enough to earn a decent amount of opportunities and produce some fantasy points. He finished the year with 9.4 PPR PPG, which is nothing to write home about, but it was a small win considering his cost.

Reports this offseason indicate that the Texans are looking to expand their backfield and land a big-name player. Woody Marks will likely be relegated to a third-down back role at best in 2026. Even if he still has it, we don’t know how good that role will be. CJ Stroud is not a quarterback who checks often. I recognize that this is still a fairly low price regardless of Marks’ 2026 projection, but this is a ‘what do you gain if you win’ situation. In 2025, a lot went right for Marks and production made no difference.

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